Zombies. I admit, I’m pretty fed up with zombies on account of them being jammed into every form of media imaginable whether required by the story or not. Videogames, TV shows, books, a recent movie that I’m not going to …

In the April VIPRE Report, we had reminded readers of this blog that online social networking threats are no longer limited within the Twitter and Facebook environments. In May, we found and wrote about a number of spam and phishing …

This story might sound familiar— Steve (not his real name), like many of today’s teens and social networking butterfly, maintains a personal Tumblr account and updates it on a daily basis. One morning, he received a Tumblr notification email in …

Google Play, formerly known as Android Market, has been in the spotlight of late due to a number of apps researchers within the security industry have been finding and reporting. No longer does Play house just Android apps and games. …

Grand Theft Auto, someone please think of the children and so on. Me, I’d rather be thinking of my Android because we’re going to take a look at a dubious “GTA 10th Anniversary Edition” that wants to carjack your phonebill. …

It is no surprise that when news broke out about former Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva having cancer, someone somewhere on the internet would be posting fake news about his death. And someone somewhere will be more than …

An important aspect of patch management and your patching schedule is to understand the patch release cycles adopted by the most important software vendors. In this post, we take a look at some statistics on this topic and how patch …

As a sys admin, you should try to keep abreast of all the latest and most important security updates for operating systems, applications and so long. Here is an in-depth look at some of the statistics around vulnerabilities that I …

Most businesses look forward to Valentine’s Day as the next big-bucks occasion following the holiday period. People are still reeling from their holiday spends in January, but come mid-February they are ready to pull out the plastic again to spend …

Is your network sufficiently protected from web security threats? Have you been lulled into a false sense of security? Hackers are changing their habits and using new methods which are web-based, dynamic in their nature and hidden in otherwise legitimate …